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• My Cancer: The Waiting Game

  
  INDEX RESEARCH — Authority: 91
  by Sarah Meyer Index Research Digg this Email this Birth Is The Disease; Death Is The Cure. The language applied to cancer sounds like Obama’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We hear about "battles" - “Fighting the Enemy” and the “War on Cancer.” Constructively ...
  17 hours ago

• Hospice Care, Part 5: Another Family’s Hospice Experience

  
  Tender Loving Eldercare — Authority: 108
  Barbara and Cindy, Mother-Daughter Team Cindy is a dear friend whom I met around 1980.  Together we’ve experienced many of life’s milestones — single life, finding our Mr. Right’s, weddings, married life, having children, watching them grow, and caring for our parents. Our mothers both spent their final ...
  20 hours ago

• Missing Robert

  
  Better Than I Ever Expected: Sex and Aging — Authority: 507
  Im trying to work on my book, but as my birthday approaches, I miss Robert so horribly that I had to write memories of him. Excerpts: I cried with Robert when we were forced to accept his death. His mind stayed strong at first as his body weakened. While he still had the strength, he prepared with the care and ...
  3 days ago

• Photo Friday: November is National Hospice/Palliative Care Month

  
  Alive Hospice Blog — Authority: 416
  Mrs. Lynda Pond’s is one of the many faces of hospice care that we celebrate during National Hospice/Palliative Care Month, and throughout the year. Mrs. Pond received care at Alive Hospice at Skyline Madison Campus and from one of Alive Hospice’s home care teams. Though she died earlier this year, her smile ...
  3 days ago

• My own death: Making peace with what’s down the road is liberating

  
  Alive Hospice Blog — Authority: 416
  Dr. David Tribble We at Alive Hospice had the privilege this week of being addressed by Don Schumacher , the President and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization . After the update of all the things going on in Washington regarding proposed cuts, health-care reform, and hospice ...
  3 days ago

• Kettering

  
  Patrice J — Authority: 115
  This post is pretty much going to be ALL videos. Here are some songs that I am currently in love with. The Antlers – “Kettering” After seeing them play in Brooklyn, I pretty much have been listening to them NONSTOP . They are amazing live. I regret passing them up so many times. The xx – ...
  3 days ago

• Hospice program assists parents with prenatal diagnoses

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  From the Grand Rapids [MI] Press:The Perinatal Care Program provided by Hospice of Michigan offers comfort and guidance to families coping with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition. (At left, Jody Kyser and her daughter Chloe, who had Trisomy 18).The program is one of only four in the state that offers ...
  4 days ago

• What $20 Gets You

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 469
  The day my sister came home from the hospital after her first breast cancer surgery, I went to the local drugstore to pick up her initial dose of medicine. I had her insurance information and a $20 bill in my pocket. The pharmacist told me the total was “seventeen fifty.” Great, I thought, I can [...]
  5 days ago

• Anyone know of a good hospice in the SW burbs of Chicago?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 634
  Anyone know of a very good hospice care center in the SW burbs of Chicago? We just got word that my mom is on her last round of chemo and she needs to get her estate ready. Theyre estimating 6 months max to live (but who really knows?). We are investigating hospices and got a recommendation of Joliet but thats a ...
  5 days ago

• Hospice Of Union County Annual Holiday Auction. November 14 At First Baptist Church

  
  The Monroe Scoop — Authority: 428
  Monroe, NC Hospice of Union County has some wonderful news The upcoming Annual Holiday Auction , on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at First Baptist Church in Monroe. The highlight is a package that includes: 4 Kingdom Hopper passes to Walt Disney World 3-night stay in a full villa. (not a hotel room, this ...
  5 days ago

• November: Lung Cancer Awareness Month

  
  Fresh Living — Authority: 432
  Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in America, killing around 437 people every day. In honor of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Ive compiled some resources from around Beliefnet to help raise awareness, encourage conversation, and offer support.
  6 days ago

• New book on bereavement given warm welcome at Compton Hospice launch

  
  Passionate Blog — Authority: 91
  We are thrilled at the reception given to the book written by Compton Hospice bereavement counsellor, Dodie Graves, at an official launch at the charity.Wolverhampton’s mayor, Councillor Surjan Singh Duhra was among the many guests who attended the event at The Cedars recently.Dodie has used her considerable ...
  6 days ago

• Regional Hospice volunteer training program

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 452
  The Ashland Regional Hospice is organizing an upcoming volunteer training program on November 4th, 5th, 10th, and 11th, from 5:00 until 8:00pm. Participants must attend all four sessions and should register ahead of time if planning on participating. Please contact Ashley at 715-682-5151 if you are interested.Posted ...
  1 week ago

• Save the dates: “Grief During the Holidays” seminars coming up in November and December

  
  Alive Hospice Blog — Authority: 416
  Facing the loss of a loved one is difficult at any time of year, but the holiday season can make coping especially difficult. Alive Hospice will offer two free seminars in Nashville and one in Murfreesboro that can help participants get through the holidays more easily. Alive Hospice’s “Grief During the ...
  1 week ago

• WHEN DEATH COMES HOME II: GOODNIGHT IRENE

  
  ALL THINGS THAT MATTER — Authority: 404
  The silence is deafening. I just came in from feeding the horses and cleaning out the stalls. My wife, Deb, has gone to do some errands. This would have been the first day in six months that we could have gone out together for a simple thing like getting groceries, but we figured someone needed to be here to take ...
  1 week ago

• Ensuring a Patients End-of-Life Wishes

  
  Sound Medicine — Authority: 126
  Youve no doubt heard of "do not resuscitate" or DNR orders, the instructions given to hospital employees that a patient has chosen not to receive extraordinary measures such as intubation near the end of life.But those orders typically only apply inside the hospital.For patients at home or in a nursing home, ...
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• Simon Cowell vows to battle for more help for children’s hospices

  
  Beat Trend — Authority: 136
  Simon Cowell has vowed to battle for more help for children’s hospices. The 50-year-old has said he would even do a “Jamie Oliver” and take the plight to the Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street. Cowell was speaking at the CHASE hospice for children in Arlington, Surrey, and dismissed his ‘Mr Nasty’ ...
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• Simon Cowell announced patron of national Children’s Hospices UK

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 577
  Simon Cowell, the X Factor judge whose infamous on-screen nastiness has made him a household name was today announced patron of national Children’s Hospices UK. Simon Cowell delighted a clutch of sick children on a visit to a children’s hospice, while Dannii Minogue drew massive crowds at the switching on ...
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• It swivels. It comforts. It rocks!

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 138
  I just bought a recliner.  For myself.  Oh yes I did.  Me - the woman who once threatened a man with dire consequences if he so much as browsed in the recliner department. I believed then (and maybe it’s true) that the combination of a recliner and a TV remote spelled the death of a relationship. Only now ...
  1 week ago

• Childless Simon Cowell Involved In Children’s Hospice Charity

  
  Stupid Celebrities Gossip — Authority: 603
  American Idol judge, Simon Cowell, is giving back and working with a children’s hospice spending time with sick children because he doesn’t have children of his own. Read more on Simon Cowell’s involvement in the charity below. Simon Cowell has always said he was “too selfish” to start his own family but ...
  1 week ago

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